Official Description:
Overwhelmed with grief, Edward is drifting when a new family moves in next door. Bella hides her own heartache and guilt as she struggles to raise her son. If they can see past their sorrow, they might find the missing pieces they need…in each other.
Word Count: 9,042
Edward’s dealing with grief, having suffered the loss of his child and cushions his heart and mind in bubble wrap trying to keep painful remembrances’ at bay.
Bella, her four year old son Seth, and their Labrador George move in next door, immediately impacting Edward’s existence with their vibrancy.
Within the first week of Bella and Seth’s arrival, Edward learns they too, have lost a loved one: Bella’s husband and Seth’s father, Mike, was killed fighting overseas in Iraq, serving their country.
Seth adorably begins to invade Edward’s space, latching onto his male neighbor as he doesn’t remember a lot about Mike, and Edward in turn, acts as a backup for Bella when work interferes.
Edward and Bella grow closer as neighbors and friends, their attraction to one another slowly building as Edward feels himself coming up from the smothered existence he had been living.
We learn each character’s makeup, a bit about their past, but a little mystery remains and MeilleurCafe provides just the right touch, deft without being maudlin or over-sentimental with the facts, the situation, each character has in their loss and recovery.
Noises is a lovely story of three souls connecting and finding hope and life once more amidst their mutual sorrow.
Fanfiction is a funny thing. Sometimes it’s easy for us readers to get caught up in all the smut and the heat and the fun of a lot of the stories posted in the twilight fanfiction that we forget about the stories that make us really feel inside.
Well, MeilleurCafe’s Noises, a K+ rated one-shot about two people struggling and surviving through pain, is just the right reminder. Written with a poignant and wistful tone, the story grabs you in from the first dated entry, a mix of narration and little dialogue that intrigues and interests.
The OS isn’t a painless ride, but the pain is worth the experience. Not only does Noises beget a parent’s worst nightmare but it chronicles something everyone can appreciate. Pain and love and loss and the always present need to move and change regardless of how we may think we don’t need it.
MeilleurCafe’s Edward is taciturn, introverted and avoiding, existing through life but living it. Her Bella, on the other hand, is a single mom, struggling to raise a child and muddling through her conflicted and guilty feelings over her dead husband.
The author addition of an outspoken and bright Seth helps counter both Edward and Bella’s awkward but satisfying dialogues and helps propel the story forward.
While MeilleurCafe’s Noises isn’t a playful read, the author’s superior writing and characters help build a story that the reader can thoroughly enjoy. The tragedies that have shaped and defined both Edward and Bella’s lives are believable and so are their journeys to defeat them.
Emily Dickinson once said “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, that is poetry.”
Noises is that perfect and pure poetry.
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